Red Dead Redemption 2: Crafting guide, recipes Red Dead Redemption 2 Guide and Walkthrough
This page of the RDR2 guide contains crafting tips: how to start; camp - how to set up and recipes for horse care, hunting, weapons, ammunition and remedies.
Last update: 08 May 2020
In Red Dead Redemption 2 there are some crafting mechanics. They allow you to produce ammunition, food, medicine and baits. In this section of the tutorial we have shown you how to start crafting items, and prepared a list of things that you can craft into RDR2 yourself.
How to start crafting?
In Red Dead Redemption 2, in order to start crafting you have to stop. Unlike other games, you can't craft ammunition or food on the run or on horseback. In addition, it is not enough to merely stop; you have to rest or set up the camp. It depends on what you want to create. Some items require a bonfire.
However, you must remember that you cannot rest or set up camps in the general camp of your gang. In order to set up your camp, you have to get away a few hundred meters from the headquarters.
Rest
In order to rest in Red Dead Redemption 2, you simply have to stand still, away from any possible interactive objects, e.g. a few meters away from your horse. If you are already at a suitable distance, hold down the triangle for PS4, Y for XBOX. Your character will then crouch on the ground. You will see 3 possible options:Set up the camp, Crafting and Stand Up.
If you click the "craft" option, a crafting window will appear. There, you will be able to create basic items - ammunition and weapons. These are the elements of the hero's equipment for preparation of which you don't need fire.
Setting the camp
You can set up a camp in RDR2 in two ways. The first way is to start the rest and choose set up the camp. The second way is to enter the hero's items and choose the "set camp" option. When you click on it, the character will set a camp. It will be either a tent with a campfire (in case of rain) or a sleeping bag with a campfire (if not raining).
By the bonfire you can craft ammunition, weapons, food, medicines, baits and horse-care items.
You can also prepare items at a fire in the main camp.
Recipes
On this page you will find recipes for weapons, baits, medicines, ammunition and horse-care items. On a separate page of the guide we have prepared food recipes in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Horse Care
Horse Meals
Ingredients: 3 hay or 3 beets.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - Pouring Forth Oil.
Effects: Replenishes horse's stamina and health.
Horse Ointment
Ingredients: 1 sage, 1 common bulrush and 1 yarrow.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Effects: Replenishes horse's stamina and health.
Special Horse Stimulant
Ingredients: 2 sage, 2 common bulrushes and 2 wild carrots.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - Pouring Forth Oil.
Effects: Replenishes horse's stamina and health.
Potent Horse Stimulant
Ingredients: 1 sage, 1 common bulrush.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning.
Effects: Replenishes horse's stamina.
Special Horse Medicine
Ingredients: 2 ginseng, 2 common bulrush and 2 wild carrots.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - Pouring Forth Oil (chapter 2).
Effects: Regenerates horse's health.
Potent Horse Medicine
Ingredients: 1 ginseng, 1 common bulrush.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning.
Effects: Regenerates horse's health.
Special Horse Reviver
Ingredients: 2 ginsengs, 2 mushrooms and 2 wild carrots.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - American Distillation (chapter 3).
Effects: Regenerates and reinforces horse's health.
Hunting
Cover Scent Lotion
Ingredients: 1 scent gland.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Effects: Disguises the smell of the hero, making it difficult for dangerous animals to detect him.
Predator Bait
Ingredients: 1 stringy meat and 1 blackberry.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning.
Effects: Lures predators.
Potent Herbivore Bait
Ingredients: 1 vanilla flower, 1 snowdrop and 1 parasol mushroom.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Effects: Lures herbivores.
Potent Predator Bait
Ingredients: 1 griffty fish meat and 1 blackberry.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Effects: Lures nearby predators.
Weapons
Volatile Dynamite
Ingredients: 1 dynamite and 1 Animal Fat.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - American Distillation (chapter 3).
Improved Throwing Knife
Ingredients: 1 throwing knife, 1 eagle Feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Poison Throwing Knife
Ingredients: 1 throwing knife, 1 oleander sage.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - Pouring Forth Oil.
Volatile Fire Bottle
Ingredients: 1 moonshine and 1 Animal Fat.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - Pouring Forth Oil.
Fire Bottle
Ingredients: 1 moonshine and 1 Animal Fat.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Horning Tomahawk
Ingredients: 1 Tomahawk and 1 owl Feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Improved Tomahawk
Ingredients: 1 Tomahawk and 1 eagle Feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Ammunition
Dynamite Arrow
Ingredients: 1 arrow, 1 dynamite and 1 eagle feather.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - A Short Walk in a Pretty Town (chapter 3).
Fire Arrow
Ingredients: 1 arrow, 1 Animal fat and 1 flight feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Poison Arrow
Ingredients: 1 arrow, 1 oleander sage and 1 flight feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the end of chapter 2.
Improved Arrow
Ingredients: 1 arrow and 1 flight feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Small Game Arrow
Ingredients: 1 arrow and 1 flight feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Small Game Arrow
Ingredients: 1 arrow and 1 flight feather.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Explosive Cartridge
Ingredients: weapon and 1 animal fat.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Explosive Cartridge
Ingredients: weapon and 1 animal fat.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Incendiary Buckshot
Ingredients: 1 moonshine, 1 shotgun.
How to unlock: Finish the main quest - Pouring Forth Oil.
Explosive Slug
Ingredients: weapon and 1 animal fat.
How to unlock: Finish the main quest - A Short Walk in a Pretty Town (chapter 3).
Split Point Cartridge
Ingredients: regular ammo.
How to unlock: You get the recipe at the beginning of chapter 2.
Remedies
Special Bitters
Ingredients: 2 sage and 1 burdock root.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning.
Effects: Increases stamina level.
Potent Bitters
Ingredients: 1 sage and 1 burdock root.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning.
Effects: Increases stamina level.
Special Miracle Tonic
Ingredients: 3 burdock roots.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - A Short Walk in a Pretty Town (chapter 3).
Effects: Increase Stamina, Health and Dead Eye.
Potent Miracle Tonic
Ingredients: 1 Indian tobacco.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning.
Effects: Increase Stamina, Health and Dead Eye.
Special Health Cure
Ingredients: 1 slander and 1 yarrow.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - American Distillation (chapter 3).
Effects: Regenerates health.
Potent Health Cure
Ingredients: 1 slander.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning.
Effects: Regenerates health.
Special Snake Oil
Ingredients: 2 Indian tobacco.
How to unlock:Finish the main quest - American Distillation (chapter 3).
Effects: Fully replenishes Dead Eye.
Potent Snake Oil
Ingredients: 1 Indian tobacco.
How to unlock:Available since the beginning of RDR2.
Effects: Fully replenishes Dead Eye.